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you don’t have to use all of the app containers things, pacman, apt or whatever your distro uses is often enough.
if you don’t have previews at all, your system is completely broken and fucked up if you get a command not found, well you just need install the missing tool…

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you mentioned that file previews are broken for you, thy should just work, unless some component it terribly broken or missing…

also about the last part, package name usually matchess the name of the command, so for example if an online guide tells you to use the ffmpeg command and it’s not found on your system, usually that means that you have to install a package called ffmpeg.
some package managers and command line shells provide more helpful error messages, like: command X was not found, but here are some packages that provide this command, do you want to install one of them?

by the way, you mentioned that you tried using Fedora. common source of frustration is beginners trying to use apt on a system that doesn’t support or use it (apt is only used in Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivatives). Fedora uses dnf instead.

…but, as a beginner, you shouldn’t even worry about this, as most distros provide easy-to-use, graphical app store applications that can automagically install apps (from your package manager, Flatpak, Snap, etc, picking the source automatically if it’s unavailable in one of them) with a single click.

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well gnome software and epiphany app stores just work.
click, install, done.
they provide an option to pick the source to install from (package/flatpak/snap), but they both automatically pick the best one for you.

Debian/Ubuntu almost never break on updates (unless you mess with the PPAs too much), but at a significant cost: some packages and software (especially desktop environments and system packages) being 1-2 years out of date.

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As a power user, I just like the terminal more, it’s much quicker to install stuff from the terminal.

vox,
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like if you already have a car, buying a new one is a pretty bad idea for the environment even if it’s “greener”

vox,
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uhh how’s public transport bad at that?
most buses have spots and lifty thingys needed for wheelchair users

vox,
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it doesn’t matter, buying 1 car= manufactoring 1 car. net +1 car.

vox,
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most anticheats run in the kernel, even the most popular ones like battleye and vanguard.
also they are often installed automatically while launching games for the first time, without any prompts

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yeah maybe just design proper authoritative servers instead?
anticheats are kinda a band-aid solution.

vox,
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well the game installs a kernel module without my consent. Isn’t that the definition of a rootkit?

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slef hosted servers don’t solve cheating on their own either.
proper authoritive server shouldn’t send or accept any information that isn’t strictly necessary, like positions of players that are in a completely different part of the map

vox,
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and on linux you can upgrade while the system is running and then reboot

vox,
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mostly because all the good stuff in vscode comes from open source community

vox,
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just use dd or Popsicle (popsicle has a native gtk gui) or Ventoy

vox,
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well poland has WW (from e.wedel)
i rrspect them a lot more then nestle

vox,
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host your own instance

vox,
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new

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i love it but it’s not very stable, crashes pretty often

vox,
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yeah some look… weird.

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they are basically like cents

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